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Debt MFs outflow continues; investors withdraw Rs 70,000-cr in Jun qtr

Investors continued to withdraw from mutual funds focused on investing in fixed-income securities for third consecutive quarter and pulled out over Rs 70,000 crore in April-June due to high inflation and an increasing rate cycle. "In the next (September) quarter, it is safe to assume that monetary conditions will be tighter in terms of lower amount system liquidity and higher regulatory rates, both of which should see further reduction in mutual fund debt corpuses," Sandeep Bagla, CEO Trust Mutual Fund, said. Interest rate will be the major factor to dictate flow in debt mutual funds in coming quarters. Once rates start stabilizing, inflows can be expected, Ankit Yadav, Wealth Manager (USA) & Director of Market Maestroo, said. The latest outflow has pulled down the asset managed by fund managers for debt fixed-income funds by 5 per cent to Rs 12.35 lakh crore at June-end from close to Rs 13 lakh crore at the end of March, data available with the Association of Mutual Funds in ...

Stocks to Watch: GAIL, Sona BLW, ONGC, Natco Pharma, RIL, Airtel, Vodafone

Stocks to Watch: Blackstone Inc. is seeking to raise as much as Rs 3,180 crore ($400 million) through the sale of shares in Indian automotive component maker Sona Comstar

Top Headlines: India Inc's profits fall; the Big Bull bows out, and more

Corporate earnings grew in double digits during the April-June 2022 (Q1FY23) quarter but the momentum waned

Page Industries shares hit 52-week high on strong Q1 earnings

Shares of Page Industries hit a 52-week high in morning trade on Friday after the apparel manufacturer reported a multi-fold jump in the first quarter net profit

Stocks to watch: Bata India, Page Inds, NMDC, Apollo Hospitals, Oil India

Stocks to watch today: LIC, ONGC, HAL will report their June quarter results (Q1FY23) on Friday, August 12; NMDC hikes prices of lump iron ore by Rs 200 a tonne and fines by Rs 100 a tone.

'Worst likely over' for emerging Asian currencies as US Fed hike bets ease

Currencies across the region jumped Thursday, following their developing-nation peers in the Americas and Europe, after the US data published Wednesday led to a slump in the dollar

HDFC executes unusual trade to hedge borrowings against interest rate risk

The switch in hedging tools comes as markets are buffeted by surging policy rates, with the Reserve Bank of India having hiked by 140 basis points since May to tackle inflation

Letting ED add its chilling effect to crypto winter will kill the industry

A couple more scandals, and the ED may achieve the shutdown the RBI has long wished for: The considerable talent India has in this area will flee to more welcoming jurisdictions like Dubai

Stocks to watch: Eicher Motors, Tata Consumer, Coal India, BoB, IRCTC

Stocks to watch today: Apollo Hospitals, Trent, Aurobindo Pharma will report their June quarter results (Q1FY23) on Thursday, July 11; Bank of Baroda raised their MCLR rate by 5-20 bps across tenors.

Roll-out of 5G tech will map Bharti Airtel's stock trajectory: Analysts

Investors need to stay vigilant as payback from 5G is still unclear (across telcos globally), and may put pressure on tariff hikes, analysts cautioned

Shree Cement 'very bullish', setting up new factories: MD Bangur

Adani Group's entry in sector creates competition but doesn't change sector's plans radically, he says

Gold, silver remain unchanged for 2nd day; yellow metal trades at Rs 51,870

10 gram of 22-carat gold traded at Rs 47,550 on Tuesday

BSE, NSE to remain closed for trading today on account of Muharram

The official website, bseindia.com states that August 9 will be a market holiday, which would mean that there will be no trading in equity segment, equity derivative segment and SLB degment

New Sebi rules may pull the rug out from India's bid to boost bond market

Opening up India's corporate bond market is an important part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pledge to almost double the size of the economy to $5 trillion by 2025

Why Zomato's pre-public offer investors are rushing to the exit door

Though stock has crashed 65% from peak, most pre-IPO investors are in-the-money even at beaten-down valuations

IndiGo stock may reach for the skies soon if fuel prices cool off: Analysts

InterGlobe Aviation Q1: A strong revival in air passenger traffic going ahead, coupled with better cost management, and network (route) expansion may support IndiGo's profitability in the medium term

Stocks to Watch: Dabur, Wipro, IndiGo, Vodafone Idea, Adani Wilmar, Sugar

Stocks to Watch today: Britannia Industries, GAIL, Adani Enterprises, LIC Housing Finance, and Dabur India will be on the radar ahead of their Q1 results.

Paytm Q1 preview: Net loss could narrow to Rs 646 cr on solid lending biz

Paytm Q1FY23 results: JPMorgan pegs net loss at Rs 672.3 crore, down from Rs 761 crore QoQ

Britannia Q1 revenue may rise up to 15% YoY; 2% dip in PAT seen: Analysts

Analysts, on average, expect the company to post a 2 per cent drop in core profit-after-tax (PAT) to Rs 378 crore in Q1FY23 from Rs 387 crore in the year-ago period.

26-yr-old winemaker Sula to test Indian IPO market after tech unicorns flop

Sula Vineyards Ltd., which last month filed for an initial public offering, says it has over a 50% share of India's small but rapidly growing wine market